Tag: Facebook

Observations Online: Finding the Ethical Boundaries of Facebook Research

Facebook, Informed Consent, Public Data, Textual Data

Author: Roxana Willis; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2017. The following article examines the difficulties of obtaining informed consent online through a Facebook case study. It is proposed that there are at least 2 ways…
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AlgorithmWatch Forced to Shut Down Instagram Monitoring Project After Threats from Facebook

Algorithms, Facebook, Instagram, Social Media, Transparency, User Privacy

Author: Nicolas Kayser-Bril; Publisher: AlgorithmWatch; Publication Year: 2020. The following article attempts to explore what drives the Instagram algorithm’s recommendations on people’s timelines led to a serious response form Facebook looking to shut it down.…
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Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Controversial Emotion Experiment

Facebook, Moral Responsibility, News Feeds

Author: Michelle N. Meyer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2014. The following article describes how for one week in 2012, Facebook data scientists tested the effect of making News Feeds both more positive and less positive.…
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How Data Brokers Sold My Identity

Advertising, Anonymity, Data Collection, Data Privacy, Facebook, Google, Key Identifying Information, Marketing

Author: Madhumita Murgia; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2017. In the following talk, Madhumita discusses how data privacy is still a huge issue. Even though data is anonymized there are still key identifying information such as…
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The Ethics of Using Social Media Data in Research: A New Framework

Data Collection, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter

Author: Leanne Townsend, Claire Wallace; Publisher: Emerald Insight; Publication Year: 2017. The following book chapter talks about how over the past decade, the number of people engaging with social media has grown rapidly. This means…
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WiDS podcast Episode 28, Karen Hao, Covering AI and Ethics Washing in the Tech Industry

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics Washing, Facebook, Misinformation, Silicon Valley

Author: Margo Gerritsen, Karen Hao; Publisher: Women in Data Science Podcast; Publication Year: N/A. In the following podcast episode, the focus is on Karen Hao who wrote an influential article in MIT Technology Review describing…
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Facebook’s Ad-Serving Algorithm Discriminates by Gender and Race

Advertisements, AI Bias, Algorithms, Discrimination, Facebook, Machine Learning

Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how people may have seen personalized Facebook advertisements on their feed. As it turns out, that algorithm, based on machine learning,…
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The Great Hack

Cambridge Analytics, Election, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Trump

Author: Jehane Noujaim; Publisher: Netflix; Publication Year: 2019. The following documentary shows in detail how a company called Cambridge Analytics in the United Kingdom collaborated with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg and how they influenced the entire…
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Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Facebook, Instagram, Teenage Girls

Author: Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz, Deepa Seetharaman; Publisher: The Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how internal reports at Facebook found that Instagram presented real harm to teenage girls. About 1/3…
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